• Lectotype designation: LaPolla, 2004a: 42.
• Weber, 1944b: 97 (m.l.)
• Combination in Acropyga (Rhizomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 29
• Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 29; Wheeler, 1935f: 327; Donisthorpe, 1936b: 110 (in list); Weber, 1944b: 96 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 57; LaPolla, 2004a: 42 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 255; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 111; Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 732.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga berwicki: LaPolla, 2004a: 42

Junior synonyms

• Acropyga berwicki Wheeler, 1935

Obsolete combinations

• Rhizomyrma fuhrmanni

Citations

• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1936b. Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) robae sp. nov. (Hym. Formicidae), a new S. American ant, with remarks on the genus, etc. Entomologist 69:108-111. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Fernández, F.; Ortiz-Sepúlveda, C. M. 2019. Subfamilia Formicinae. Capítulo 25. Pp. 721-741 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1914e. Quelques fourmis de Colombie. Pp. 9-14 in: Fuhrmann, O.; Mayor, E. 1914. Voyage d'exploration scientifique en Colombie. Mémoires de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 5(2):1-1090. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1944b. The neotropical coccid-tending ants of the genus Acropyga Roger. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 37:89-122. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935f. Ants of the genus Acropyga Roger, with description of a new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 43:321-329. PDF